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and becomes at length nearly cylindric, obsoletely angled, and 

 rather acute at the pomt. I have generally found three 

 cotyledons, rarely four. 



Obs. — Rumphius's figure is by no means a good represen- 

 tation of the plants but his description of it is correct. It 

 comes nearest to the R. cylindrica, Kari Kandel, Rheed^ 

 Mat : VI. p. 59. t. 33, which differs from this in having the 

 radicle very obtuse and more exactly cylindrical, and the 

 peduncles generally one or two-flowered. According to 

 Rumphius this species is rather rare, and is called Mangi 

 Mangi Chenke or Clove Mangrove, whence his appellation 

 Caryophylloides, which I have thought proper to retain, as 

 the resemblance holds good in some particulars. 



XLVI. HALORAGEiE. 



HALORAGIS DISTICHA. ( W. J.) 



Foliis alternis distichis obliquis integris, floribus axillari- 

 bus subsolitariis, petalis tridentatis. 

 Kayo Kanchil. Malay. 



This species is not unfrequent in Sumatra^ at Singapore, 

 and other parts of the Malay Archipelago. 



A shrub with ferruginous pilose branches. Leaves alter- 

 nate, distichous, arranged in two series, one of large leaves 

 and another of very small ones, which resemble stipulae, being 

 regularly placed a little below the insertion of the large ones 

 so as to lie over their bases ; the large leaves are sub- 

 sessile, rhomboid-oblong, inequilateral, acute, entire, nearly 

 smooth above, pilose with short appressed hairs beneath ; 

 from an inch to an inch and a half long: the small leaves are 

 similar in shape, but more acute and little more than a quar- 

 ter of an inch long, they are arranged on the anterior side 



